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Lot 3034

ALMANACKS. The Court and City Register; or, a Gentleman's Complete Annual Calendar, for the Year 1784. London: J. Jollifee, [1783.] (Toning, light spotting to title-page.) [Bound with:] Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of Our Lord God 1784. London: the Company of Stationers, 1784. (Toning.) 12mo (138 x 73mm.) Near contemporary red morocco, foliate gilt to spine, bosses, g.e. (some scuffing, minor discolouring to lower cover, lacking clasps). - And a further sixteen almanacks from 1761 to 1876 (including 'The East India Kalendar, or Asiatic Register' for 1797', 12mo, and 'The American Kalendar; or, United States Register', 1797, 12mo, and 'The Royal Kalendar; or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America', 1797, 12mo) (17).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3010

LONDON. A True and Faithful Account of the Several Informations Exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament, to Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning of the City of London. [London:] 1667, 4to (187 x 123mm.) Title with single line border, 32pp. (Marginal damp-staining, chipped margins.) 20th century brown morocco-backed paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine (minor soiling to upper cover). Note: collates A4-D4.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3035

[NELSON, Horatio.] British Public Characters of 1798. London: R. Phillips, [1799.] 8vo (211 x 123mm.) Folding engraved frontispiece. (Browning to title, creasing to rear leaves, frontispiece repaired with large loss, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: contains the first biographical sketch of Lord Nelson. Provenance: Captain John Lumley (name inscribed to title-page). - And a further thirty-four miscellaneous volumes (including 'Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady', translated and adapted by Thomas Martyn from J.J. Rousseau, 1785, 8vo, and John Hill's 'The Family Herbal', 1812, 8vo) (35).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3023

MINIATURE BOOK. - Oliver and Boyd (publisher). The Little Warbler. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [circa 1830.] 3 vols. in 1, 18mo (64 x 39mm.) 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 additional titles. (Browning, some spotting.) Contemporary red morocco (light rubbing). - And a further three volumes (including 'The Elegant Miniature Pocket Book', 1806,12mo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3001

ERASMUS. Tomus Primus Paraphraseon… in Novum Testamentum, videlicet in quatuor Euangelia & acta apostolorum. Paris: Perri Regnault, 1540. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (134 x 87mm.) 2 parts with separate titles, Regnault elephant woodcut printer's device to both titles, 22 woodcut illustrations in the text. (Toning, front and rear blanks replaced, damp-staining from title to f1.) 18th century tooled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (damp-stain to covers, endpapers replaced). Note: Erasmus wrote his paraphrase of the New Testament between 1517 and 1524 (with the exception of 'Revelations'). It was received to great acclaim and an English translation was made in 1548 and ordered to be placed in all parish churches, next to the Bible.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3125

COOKERY. - Elizabeth RAFFALD. The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. London: for the Booksellers, 1789. New edition, 8vo (204 x 119mm.) 3 engraved folding plates, recipe notes in contemporary manuscript to front and rear blanks, 14pp. index to rear. (Browning, marginal paper-repair to A2, lacking engraved portrait, occasional spotting, a tear with loss to text of Gg2.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rubbing to extremities). Note: first edition was published in 1769. Provenance: 'Mrs. Leighton' (name inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further three related volumes (including the tenth edition of John Farley's 'The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant', 1804, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3154

ECONOMICS. - David DAVIES. The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered in Three Parts. Bath: by R. Crutwell for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795. First edition, 4to (305 x 240mm.) Half-title, in 3 parts. (Spotting to front and rear blanks, occasionally within, marginal loss and tear to X3-X4, marginal tear to N3, lacking errata.) Contemporary boards (detached, worn). Note: an important and early work of sociological inquiry.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3183

CONJURING. - Mike CAVENEY. Carter the Great. Pasadena: Mike Caveney's Magic Words, 1995. Limited edition, this being number 276 of 1000 copies, 4to (288 x 225mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (slight bump to spine ends). - And a further fifteen volumes related to conjuring (including Robert E. Neale's 'Folding Money Fooling', 1997, 4to) (16).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3153

BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham, 1762. Engraved frontispiece by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman, double column, with Apocrypha, separate title for NT, with Index and tables to rear. (Browning, occasional spotting, tear to A2, some trimming.) [Bound with:] 'The Book of Common Prayer'. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham, 1762. (Browning, damp-stain title.) [Bound with:] 'The Whole Book of Psalms'. London: Henry Woodfall, 1756. (Occasional spotting, ink-stain verso last leaf.) 4to (265 x 213mm.) Contemporary diced calf, black morocco lettering piece to spine (wear to spine ends, rubbing). Provenance: Marg (?) Aston (name inscribed to title-page of 'Common Prayer'. [Herbert 1143.] - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes (including 'The Holy Bible', 1844, 8vo) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3008

SEAWEED. - [An album of specimens from Jersey algae. N.p.: circa 1860.] 84pp., manuscript, 4to (235 x 149mm.) 137 specimens of seaweed and other marine plants mounted recto only on 84 leaves, mounted captions in manuscript and printed detailing the Latin name and classification, poem mounted verso the front-free endpaper. (Browning, occasional creasing and minor soiling.) Contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (fading and rubbing extremities, joints splitting).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3087

LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of England. London: S. Lewis and Co., 1831. 4 vols., first edition, 4to (269 x 208mm.) Half-titles, list of subscribers', 42 uncoloured engraved maps, including 14 folding. (Lacking map of London and 2 others, spotting to maps, toning.) Contemporary diced calf (rebacked, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: T.H. Shaw (pencil inscribed to front-free endpapers). - And a further two volumes (C.H. Gifford's 'History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution', 2 vols., 1817, 4to) (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3052

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1930]. 8vo (202 x 149mm.) 16 tipped-in colour plates by Rackham with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, lacking initial blank and 1 tissue-guard, occasional spotting.) Original green cloth (browned to margins, wear at spine ends), dust-jacket with mounted colour plate (tear at top of spine with loss, marginal creasing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3156

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. - H.K. BROWNE, T. LANDSEER, J. LEECH (illustrators). The Favourite Picture-Book: A Gallery of Delights Designed for the Amusement and Instruction of the Young. London: Grant and Griffith, [1854.] First edition, 4to (299 x 238mm.) 29 single-sided linen-backed leaves of illustrations. (Lacking title, lacking 2pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear, browning, occasional spotting, spotting verso to linen.) Original pictorial wrappers (chipping, minor loss to corners). - And a further eight volumes of books for children (including Henrik Ibsen's 'Peter Gynt', 1936, 4to, and the Arthur Rackham illustrated 'The Compleat Angler' by Izaak Walton, 1931, 4to) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3033

ALMANACKS. The Edinburgh Almanack, or Universal Scots and Imperial Register for 1825. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1824. 12mo (137 x 78mm.) (Toning.) Contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt fleur-de-lis to spine, g.e. (spine ends bumped, minor soiling). Provenance: Robert Kinner (ink name inscribed to initial blank). - And a further twenty-five almanacks from 1752-1836 (26).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3027

COMMONPLACE BOOK. - Anthony HIGHMORE. [A manuscript commonplace book compiled by Anthony Highmore, legal writer. N.p.: circa 1800.] 229pp., manuscript, 8vo (185 x 122mm.) Excerpts in a single legible hand relating to literary, legal and philosophical matters. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Later green paper-covered boards, morocco lettering pieces to the spine (wear to lettering pieces, Highmore's armorial bookplate to the front pastedown). Note: Highmore was an active abolitionist. He also wrote papers on Fox's libel bill, charities, excise and a paper on idiocy and lunacy.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3187

MASKELL, Alfred. Wood Sculpture. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition, 4to (256 x 170mm.) Numerous plates with tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original green cloth, decorative gilt to upper cover (lightly bumped). - And a further fifteen volumes relating to art and antique reference (including T. Tindall Wildridge's 'The Grotesque in Church Art', 1899, 4to) (16).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3028

FASHION. [Journal des Dames et des Modes. N.p.:] 1816-1822. Plates (only), 8vo (201 x 114mm.) 160 hand-coloured plates. (Toning, minor soiling to 1 plate, marginal loss to 2 plates, 40 plates to rear loose.) Contemporary black morocco (text-block nearly detached, worn). - And a related volume ('The Lady's Magazine, or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex', 1804, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3011

BIBLE, In English. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated out of the Original Greek, and with former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. Oxford: University Printers, 1696. 12mo (122 x 60mm.) Title double-ruled in red and ruled throughout, double-column. (Browning, some trimming.) 18th century boards with silver corner-pieces and silver oval centre-piece with garland engraving, silver bosses and clasps, g.e. (endpapers replaced, frayed silk to boards). Note: not listed in Herbert.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3013

AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: George Allen, 1894. First 'Peacock' edition, 8vo (180 x 116mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. (Spotting to preliminaries and some rear leaves, toning.) Original green pictorial cloth, g.e. (spine lean, light rubbing, minor mark to lower cover).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3123

[COPLEY, Esther Hewlett.] The Cook's Complete Guide, on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance: including the Art of Carving, and the Most Approved Method of Setting-Out a Table. London: Tallis and Co., [1836.] 8vo (213 x 127mm.) Additional engraved title-page with 'The New London Cookery and Complete Domestic Guide', 10 engraved plates, index and 'Table of Contents' to rear. (Browning, occasional spotting, lacking frontispiece, minor corner creasing.) Contemporary calf (upper hinge broken, sunning to spine, rubbing). Note: dated from plate opposite p.11. Provenance: Elizabeth Parry (morocco name-plate to the front pastedown). [Bitting, 99]. - And a further seven volumes related to cookery and household budgeting (including 'The New Family Receipt-Book, Containing About Eight Hundred Truly Valuable Receipts', 1820, 8vo) (8).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3139

DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, early issue (213 x 124mm.) 40 plates by 'Phiz' and Robert Seymour and extra-illustrated with 31 plates by Thomas Onyne. (Lacking half-title and p.xv, the list of plates, p.382 and p.383 adhering, spotting and browning to the plates, lacking one of the suppressed plates by R.W. Buss, the other replaced by a 'Phiz' plate.) 20th century green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Note: an early printing with many first issue points, but lacking 'Weller' on the additional title. - And a further two volumes by Charles Dickens ('Martin Chuzzlewit', 2 vols., 1844, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3053

HESELTINE, J.P. Trifles in Sculpture, from the Collection of J.P.H. London: J.J. Waddington, 1916. 4to (259 x 188mm.) 32 sepia plates of sculpture. (Browning to margins, spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards (fading, minor soiling). Provenance: John Postle Heseltine (gift inscribed from on headed note-paper mounted on the front-free endpaper). - And a further thirteen miscellaneous volumes (including 12 Chinese almanacks, [circa 1900], 8vo, and, with a facsimile title-page, Gervase Markham's 'Markham's Master-piece', [circa 1720], 4to) (14).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3111

CONJURING. - Levent and Todd KARR. Roy Benson by Starlight. [Los Angeles:] The Miracle Factory, 2006. First edition, 4to (253 x 198mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (bumped at top of spine), dust-jacket (chipped at top of spine). - And a further eighteen volumes related to conjuring (including Phil Temple's 'Dante, the Devil Himself', 1991, 4to). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (19).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3066

COOKERY. - Lady LLANOVER. Good Cookery, Illustrated, and Recipes Communicated by the Welsh Hermit of the Cell of St. Gover. London: Richard Bentley, 1867. First edition, 8vo (194 x 125mm.) Frontispiece, 11 plates. (Toning, upper hinge weakening.) Original green cloth (bumped with minor wear to spine ends, small mark to spine panel). Provenance: M.F. Russell (ink name to the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3196

SADOWITZ, Jerry. Cards on the Table. London: Martin Breese, 1989. First edition, 8vo (213 x 145mm.) Numerous illustrations by David Britland. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (browned to margins). - And a quantity of books related to conjuring, mostly magic aimed for children (including Etienne Pradier's 'Think of a Card', 2013, 8vo) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3073

CONJURING. - Stewart JAMES. Stewart James in Print, the First Fifty Years. Toronto: Jogestja, 1989. Limited edition, this being number 52 of 200 copies signed by Stewart James, 4to (278 x 213mm.) Numerous illustrations, including photographic, including a file of duplicated ephemera. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, slip-case (slight rubbing, minor damp-spotting). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3126

COOKERY. - Mary SMITH. The Complete House-Keeper, and Professed Cook. Newcastle: S. Hodgson, 1786. New edition, 8vo (194 x 112mm.) 6pp. index at front, 2 engraved folding plates of table-settings to rear. (Browning, spotting throughout, corner creasing, blanks replaced, label remains on front pastedown.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (wear to top of spine, rubbing). Provenance: Elizabeth Darley (name inscribed to title-page). [Bitting, 439.] - And a further two related volumes (Eliza Acton's 'Modern Cookery, in all Its Branches; Reduced to a System of Easy Practice', 1853, 8vo, and B. Clermont's 'The Professed Cook; or, the Modern Art of Cookery, Pastry & Confectionary, made Plain and Easy', 1824, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3160

MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864. 3 vols., 4to (251 x 153mm.) 225 lithographed colour plates with tissue-guards. (Toning, occasional spotting, heavier spotting in volume 2.) Original green blind-stamped and gilt cloth (paper label adhering to upper cover of volume 3) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3128

PRIVATE PRESS. - Ruth LOWINSKY. Lovely Food, A Cookery Notebook. London: Nonesuch Press, 1931. Limited edition, this being number 389 of 500 copies, 4to (217 x 141mm.) Illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. (Toning.) Original brown cloth-backed over red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. - And a further two volumes by Ruth Lowinsky (including 'More Lovely Food', 1935, 4to), and one other (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3048

[BOWLES, Carrington.] The Artist's Assistant; or School of Science, forming a Practical Introduction to the Polite Arts. Birmingham: Swinney & Hawkins, 1801. 8vo (209 x 124mm.) 10 engraved plates, 6 folding. (Creasing to plates, damp-staining to preliminaries.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: F. Bevis (name inscribed to front pastedown); Birmingham Library (small stamp to initial blank). - And thirteen further volumes related to art (including Cennino Cennini's 'A Treatise on Painting', 1844, 4to, and C. Hullmandel's 'The Art of Drawing on Stone', 1835, 8vo, and M. D'Arclais de Montamy's 'Traité des Couleurs pour la Painture en Émail et sur la Porcelaine', 1765, 8vo) (14).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3019

BELLICARD, Jerome Charles [and Charles COCHIN.] Observations Upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius. London: for D. Wilson, and T. Durham, 1753. First edition, 8vo (190 x 119mm.) 42 copper-engraved plates, 3pp. index., with two sections from the second edition bound-in with a separate title dated 1756. (Browning, minor soiling to margins of several plates, lacking blanks.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: J. Watson (name inscribed to the title-page).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3198

MARTIAL ARTS. - Doshin SO. Shorinji Kempo, philosophy and techniques. Tokyo: Japan Publications, Inc., 1974. Second printing, 4to (297 x 205mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original cloth boards, dust-jacket (small crease to inner flap). - And a quantity of further volumes related to martial arts (including Masatoshi Nakayama's 'Dynamic Karate', 1973, 8vo) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3192

CONJURING. - Jean Eugéne ROBERT-HOUDIN. The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic, or How to Become a Wizard. Translated and Edited, with Notes by Professor Hoffman. London: George Routledge and Sons, [circa 1900.] 8vo (186 x 116mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Toning, repair to p.83 and front-free endpaper, lacking rear blank.) Original pictorial brown cloth (hinges cracked, rubbing). - And a quantity of material related to conjuring, including booklets, and spiral-bound printed material. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3064

HAUTE-COUTURE. Revue Mensuelle Illustrée, des Arts Décoratifs appliqueés à la Femme. Paris: Goupil & Cie., 1904-1907. 4 vols., nos.37-86, folio (347 x 260mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations and advertisements, original wrappers bound-in. (Mild toning.) Mid-20th century brown half cloth over paper-covered boards (some damp-staining to spine of volume 5, occasional mark to cloth) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3032

BAILEY, J. (publisher). The Fashionable Swindler, or, Villany Displayed; being the Genuine History, and Surprising Events, Frauds, Deception and Remarkable Occurrences, of the Celebrated and Elegant Sharper, George R-. London: John Bailey, [circa 1822.] 12mo (173 x 99mm.) Hand-coloured folding etched frontispiece. (Toning, mild browning, rear blank replaced, lacks leaf C1.) 20th century red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt titling to spine (endpapers replaced). Note: scarce. - And a further seven miscellaneous volumes (including the unauthorized edition of Peter Beckford's 'Thoughts Upon Hare and Fox Hunting', 1796, 8vo, and John Hoyland's 'A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies', 1816, 8vo) (8).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3127

COOKERY. - William Henderson BRAND. Simpson's Cookery, Improved and Modernised. The Complete Modern Cook, containing a Very Extensive and Original Collection of Recipes in Cookery. London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1834. 8vo (203 x 118mm.) (Toning, spotting to blanks, lacking half-title?) Contemporary paper-covered boards, paper label mounted to spine (spine seams splitting, label browned). Provenance: E.A. Milnes (name inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further five related volumes (including Mrs Rundell's 'A New System of Domestic Cookery', 1846, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3042

COOKERY. - [Hannah GLASSE.] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published. London: W. Straha, J. and F. Rivington et al., 1770. New edition, 8vo (204 x 122mm.) Facsimile signature of Hannah Glasse at B1, recipes in contemporary manuscript hand verso the title and verso a8. (Lacking leaf U3 and lacking the fold-out 'Order of a Modern Bill of Fare', front blank replaced, some damp-staining and soiling, some marginal tearing, some heavy spotting, lacking rear blank.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with tips strengthened, rubbing). Provenance: Mary Woody (ink inscribed on last leaf); 'School Library' (ink inscribed on front free-endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3004

CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Romish Mass-Book, faithfully Translated into English with Notes and Observations Thereupon; Plainly Demonstrating the Idolatry and Blasphemy thereof… with Unanswerable Arguments Proving it No Service of God. London: George Larkin, 1683. 12mo (143 x 79mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 2pp. advertisement leaf to rear. (Browning, minor soiling, frontispiece detached, B6 trimmed, lacking front blank?) Contemporary calf (joints split, some spine loss). Provenance: Charles Burstow, 'Ivories House', Horley Station (stamp verso the frontispiece and on front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3146

SUSSEX. - The Duchess of CLEVELAND. The Battle Abbey Roll With Some Account of the Norman Lineages. London: John Murray, 1889. 3 vols., first edition, 4to (209 x 158mm.) Frontispiece, 1 folding genealogy. (Toning.) Original cream buckram (spotting to cloth), dust-jackets (creasing and loss to extremities). - And a further four volumes relating to Sussex (including Henry Cheal's 'The Ships and Mariners of Shoreham', [1909], 8vo) (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3045

MANUSCRIPT. [A presentation gift to an employee of the Southern Division of the London and North Western Railway Company. N.p.:] 1909.Small folio (250 x 193mm.) Varicoloured hand-painted dedication leaf to 'H.A. Walker', hand-written address with elaborate hand-painted border, 25 leaves of names and job-titles of employees in manuscript of the Southern Division of the London and North Western Railway Company. (Mild toning.) Contemporary black morocco bound by Kelly & Sons, company device in gilt on upper cover surrounded by elaborate foliate and floral design with red, green and tan morocco inlays, gilt to spine, elaborate gilt turn-ins, moiré silk endpapers, g.e. (small marks to lower cover).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3184

FONTAINE, Jean de la. Tales and Novels in Verse. London: for the Society of English Bibliophilists, 1896. 2 vols. Limited edition, this being number 460 of 520 copies, 4to (252 x 168mm.) Numerous hand-coloured engraved plates after Lancret, Boucher and Pater. (Toning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth, paper labels mounted to spines (sunning to spines, fading). - And a further eighteen miscellaneous volumes (including 'The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition' in Paris 1867, [1868], 4to) (20).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3181

BROADSIDE. - Ted HUGHES. Pike. Massachusetts, Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1959. Limited edition, being one of 200 copies, this one signed, single leaf (519 x 404mm.) Woodcut illustration in green and black by Robert Bermelin, poem in two columns. (Browning, large creases, spotting to top right.) Unbound as issued. Note: the first publication of this poem which was later published in Hughes' second collection, Lupercal, in 1960. This was the first collaboration between Hughes and Leonard Baskin. The Poems is signed 'For Clapham Slim, from Ted'. 'Clapham Slim' was the name used by Joe Lyde, jazz trumpeter. Lyde and Hughes met at Cambridge and remained friends until Lyde's death in 1976. In her biography of Hughes, Elaine Feinstein called Lyde 'a wild mercurial figure' who 'was one of the people Hughes sought out with most enthusiasm when he returned to Cambridge'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3193

CONJURING. - Charles T. JORDAN. Collected Tricks. New Jersey: Karl Fulves, 1975. 4to (280 x 215mm.) Numerous illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt. (Toning.) Original spiral-bound pink wrappers. - And a quantity of books, pamphlets and booklets related to conjuring. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3167

CROKER, Temple Henry. The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. In Which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is Explained. London: for the Authors, 1764. Vol. 1 (only), folio (357 x 219mm.) Engraved allegorical frontispiece, 54 engraved plates. (Toning, minor spotting to margins, tear to plate 19 and leaf 7I.) Contemporary calf (lacking the lettering pieces, heavily rubbed). - And a further three volumes (including 'A List of All the Officers of the Army', 1780, 4to) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3056

SMITH, James Edward and James SOWERBY. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth. London: for the Proprietor, C.E. Sowerby, [1832]-1838. 4 vols. (only, of 12). Second edition, 8vo (218 x 129mm.) Numerous hand-coloured plates, many with common names in manuscript pencil or crayon. (Browning, toning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary blue half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rubbing to spines and extremities). Note: volumes 1,2,3 and 5 only (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3077

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Richard WAGNER. [The Ring of the Niblung.] London: William Heinemann, 1910-1911. 2 vols., 4to (251 x 178mm.) 64 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, spotting to preliminaries and occasionally thereafter.) Original brown cloth, pictorial gilt, original endpapers (rebacked with raised bands). Note: comprises 'The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie' and 'Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods'. - And a further three volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham (including 'The Ingoldsby Legends', 1907, 4to, and 'Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures', [1913], 4to) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3030

CHILDERS, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1942. Reprint, 8vo (179 x 120mm.) Folding map as frontispiece, 3 further maps, mounted notes relating to the history of the novel on the front pastedown, mounted card on the front-free endpaper. (Toning.) Original yellow cloth (fading, soiling to covers, rubbing to extremities). Note: the mounted notes on the front pastedown are written by Lt. Col. R. Despard Davies. He writes: 'The 'Riddle' and Today: Childers was shot as a spy just after the last war. One of the characters in the book I know well, lives near me in Kingswear. The voyage was actually carried out'. It is known that Childers used to sail around the Frisian Islands prior to writing the book, but the extent to which the novel is based on real events is still disputed. Provenance: Tom Fletcher (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpaper by R. Despard Davies).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3070

COOKERY. - Owen SIMMONS. The Book of Bread. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] First edition, 4to (284 x 201mm.) 12 chromolithographed plates, 8 tipped-in black and white plates, 2 tipped-in gelatin silver prints, advertisements to rear. (Several plates with corner creasing, toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original green decorative cloth (lightly rubbed, some fading). - And a further four related volumes (including T. Percy Lewis' and A.G. Bromley's 'The Book of Cakes', [1903], 4to, and three of five volumes of the 'All About Confectionary Series' by H.G. Harris and S.P. Borella, [circa 1910], 4to) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3072

CONFECTIONERY. - George BURTON. Chocolates and Bon-Bons. [Blackpool: N.p.:] 1924. 4to (240 x 175mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 10 colour plates, 2 black and white plates, 2pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning, slight corner creasing, browning to front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial brown cloth (minor rubbing). Provenance: G. Roberts (name inscribed to front blank). - And a further nineteen volumes relating to confectionery and baking (including W.C. Butler's 'The Modern Cook', 1894, 8vo, and A.C. Skeats' 'Commercial Confectionery', 2 vols., 1937, 4to, and John Kirkland's 'The Modern Baker, Confectioner and Caterer', 4 vols., 1931, 4to) (20).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3050

TRAVEL. - Thomas ASTLEY (publisher). A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of the most Esteemed Relations, which have been hitherto published in any Language. London: for Thomas Astley, 1747. Volume IV (of 4). First edition, 4to (259 x 194mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 71 engraved plates and maps and charts, including 6 folding, index to rear. (Most of the folding plates are heavily creased, some paper repairs, two with marginal loss, two with significant loss, browning, occasional spotting, lacking rear blank.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, upper joint splitting). Note: includes du Halde's descriptions of China, and voyages to Korea and Tibet.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3135

BEEBE, William. Galapagos, World's End. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (262 x 185mm.) 9 colour plates, including 1 double-paged, numerous black and white photographic illustrations. (Toning.) 21st century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spine, t.e.g. (endpapers replaced). Provenance: P. James Kelly (gift inscribed to by the author on the half-title). - And a related volume (Charles Darwin's 'Origin of the Species', 1976, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3164

PATER, Walter. Studies in the History of the Renaissance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo (198 x 123mm.) Title, extra-illustrated with several mounted illustrations, including verso the half-title and mounted vignette to the title-page. (Lacking 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, toning.) Near contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g. (rubbing to extremities). Note: Pater's first published book. Provenance: C.C. Lindsay (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further three miscellaneous volumes (including Mrs. Russell Barrington's 'G.F. Watts, Reminiscences', 1905, 4to) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3093

ROWLANDSON, Thomas (illustrator). - [David ROBERTS.] The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, with an Account of his Campaigns on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall. London: for Patrick Martin, 1815. First edition, 8vo (201 x 115mm.) 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Browning, lacking 1 plate, some plates chipped with paper repairs verso, finger-marks and some soiling throughout, blanks replaced.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (wear to covers). - And a further nine literary volumes (including Thomas Gaspey's 'Takings; or the Life of a Collegian' with etchings after designs by R. Dagley, 1821, 4to) (10).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3116

CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First English edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) (Minor spotting and browning to preliminaries, crease to rear blank.) Original black cloth (faint marks to lower cover, light rubbing). - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes, mostly literary (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3109

BINDINGS. - Cuthbert LARKING. Bandobast and Khabar, Reminiscences of India. London: Hurst and Blackett Limited, 1888. First edition, 8vo (179 x 125mm.) Photographic frontispiece, 11 plates from drawings by the author. (Toning.) Contemporary half vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, black morocco lettering piece to the spine, Newport Grammar School insignia and motto in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (minor soiling to vellum). Provenance: A.V. Russell (prize bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further twelve volumes of bindings (including 'Berge's Complete Natural History', 1890, 8vo) (13).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3085

THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [circa 1920.] 4to (245 x 181mm.) 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Creasing to frontispiece tissue-guard, toning.) Original green pictorial cloth (rebacked with raised spines). - And a further six volumes illustrated by Hugh Thomson, all rebacked (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3176

NATTES, John Claude. Scotia Depicta: or, the Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland. London: H.R. Young, 1819. Large paper copy, folio (421 x 266mm.) 49 copper-engraved plates each with descriptive text leaf, engraved vignette to rear. (Light to moderate marginal spotting to most plates, seven plates to rear with marginal damp-staining, offsetting to text leaf.) Contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind-stamped rectangles to cover, elaborate gilt to spine, g.e. (upper cover nearly detached, heavily rubbed extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3122

COOKERY. - Maura LAVERTY. Cookery Book. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946. 8vo (214 x 135mm.) Illustrations by Louis le Brocquy, section on diet by Sybil le Brocquy. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original blue cloth (rubbed to extremities), dust-jacket (browning, loss to top of spine panel and upper margin of rear panel, chipping). - And a further volume (Eleanour Sinclair Rohde's 'Rose Recipes', 1939, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3151

ROSSETTI, William Michael (editor). Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism Papers 1854-1862. London: George Allen, 1899. Limited edition, this being number 22 of 250 copies, 4to (255 x 186mm.) 14 photogravure plates with tissue-guards. (Spotting to some plate margins, toning, browning to endpapers.) Original decorative cloth (slight lifting of the cloth on upper cover). - And a further four related volumes (including J.W. Mackail's 'The Life of William Morris', 1899, 2 vols., 8vo) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3018

CHAP BOOK. - G. MARTIN (publisher). [Hand-coloured vignettes with quatrains describing the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.] London: G. Martin, [circa 1815.] 32mo (108 x 100mm.) 12 hand-coloured vignettes with quatrains. (Browning, minor soiling.) Original wrappers (sewn repair, chipping). Note: at the end Napoleon is banished to Elba.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

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